The role of self-endangering cognitions between long-term care nurses' altruistic job motives and exhaustion

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to demographic change and staff shortages nurses suffer under high work strain. As a consequence, caregivers' absenteeism due to mental stress, in particular burnout, is high. To explain the development of nurses' burnout more research is needed on nurses' individual resources and coping strategies. Self-endangering is a potentially harmful coping strategy.

Objective

To expand the perspective of the Job Demand-Resources Model by including caregivers' intraindividual resources and the coping construct of self-endangering as a mediator between personal resources and nurses' emotional exhaustion.

Methods

A longitudinal questionnaire survey was conducted between July 2020—March 2021 among nurses in long-term care in Germany. The final analysis sample c

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482104 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature